Funding boost for Logan hackerspace to fuel innovation and growth
A media release from the Minister for State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning, the Honourable Cameron Dick Logan-based Substation33 is set to benefit from a $15,197 investment through the Palaszczuk Government’s Hackerspaces Grant program. Minister for Manufacturing Cameron Dick congratulated the innovation hub on being one of the 13 organisations to share in almost $220,000 […]
DV campaign to streets
LOGAN businesses are taking a campaign to end domestic and family violence to the streets of Jimboomba.
Campaign to end domestic violence flies banners above Jimboomba streets
Jimboomba Times | January 22 2020 – 6:00PM Logan businesses are taking a campaign to end domestic and family violence to the streets of Jimboomba. Businesses and community groups have sponsored banners featuring anti-violence messages. They are part of a campaign by grass-roots alliance Not Now, Not Ever in Logan, and can be seen above […]
Logan’s first domestic violence street banner campaign launched
Logan businesses and community groups are starting 2020 by sponsoring street banners urging the local community to end domestic and family violence.
Turning old electronics into innovative projects
Story: Sam Marsh, RACQ Road Ahead SUBSTATION33, A SOCIAL enterprise in Logan, has found a way to recycle electronic waste while helping members of the community. In the last financial year, Substation33 has provided more than 600 unemployed volunteers with work experience while processing more than 200,000kg of electronic waste. Every morning the team dismantle […]
Jobless find their own way
Albert and Logan News: 12 December 2019 LOGAN community organisation YFS will receive $150,000 from the state government to help more people create their future job. It is the first organisation to get money from the $1 million Creating Your Future Job pilot project, designed to provide training and mentoring to about 50 in Logan. […]
Innovative Logan employment program gets new Spark
A successful initiative that supports people to set up their own small businesses or find paid jobs is now accessible to more job seekers in Logan. YFS created the Spark service for public housing tenants in 2017 and has just received funds from the Department of Employment, Small Business and Training to expand the initiative […]
YFS R4Respect program wins gold for countering violence
Photo: SOCIAL CHANGE: R4Respect Youth Ambassadors Rachael Pascua and Nadia Saeed with Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton, YFS CEO Cath Bartolo and Andrew Taukolo. Jimboomba Times | November 29 2019 – 4:30PM YFS has won a gold award for its work promoting respectful relationships in Logan at the Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards this […]
R4Respect recognised for its work in promoting respectful relationships among peers in Logan
YFS’s R4Respect program today received a gold award in the community-led category of the 2019 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (ACVPA). The ACVPA recognise best practice in the prevention or reduction of violence and other types of crime in Australia and play a vital role in highlighting effective community-based initiatives to prevent crime and […]
Chilli fest tees off at golf club
By JUDITH KERR, Albert and Logan NewsThursday 15 November 2019 Organiser Sandra Beynon, right, has moved the Chillogan Festival to the Meadowbrook Golf Club. ORGANISERS of a fledgling chilli festival have been able to overcome the odds to reprise last year’s inaugural event. After problems hiring out Beenleigh Town Square, organisers have moved the event […]